Sesquilé is a town and municipality in
Almeidas Province
Almeidas Province (, ) is one of the 15 provinces in the Cundinamarca department, Cundinamarca Department, Colombia. Almeidas borders to the east with the Boyacá Department to the north with the Ubaté Province, to the west with the Central Savann ...
in the
department of Cundinamarca,
Colombia
Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia, is a country primarily located in South America with Insular region of Colombia, insular regions in North America. The Colombian mainland is bordered by the Caribbean Sea to the north, Venezuel ...
. Sesquilé in the
Chibcha language
Chibcha, Mosca, Muisca, Muysca (*/ˈmɨska/ * ˆmʷɨska, or Muysca de Bogotá is a language spoken by the Muisca people, one of the many indigenous cultures of the Americas. The Muisca inhabit the Altiplano Cundiboyacense of what today is th ...
of the
Muisca
The Muisca (also called the Chibcha) are indigenous peoples in Colombia and were a Pre-Columbian culture of the Altiplano Cundiboyacense that formed the Muisca Confederation before the Spanish colonization of the Americas. The Muisca spe ...
means "hot water".
[Official website Sesquilé]
- accessed 06-05-2016
Sesquilé is adjacent to
Tominé Reservoir and nearby
Lake Guatavita
Lake Guatavita (Spanish: ''Laguna Guatavita'') is located in the Cordillera Oriental of the Colombian Andes in the municipality of Sesquilé in the Almeidas Province, Cundinamarca department of Colombia, northeast of Bogotá, the capital of ...
, the suspected site of the ''
El Dorado
El Dorado () is a mythical city of gold supposedly located somewhere in South America. The king of this city was said to be so rich that he would cover himself from head to foot in gold dust – either daily or on certain ceremonial occasions â ...
'' legend.
Gallery
References
External links
{{Muisca navbox, Topics
Municipalities of Cundinamarca Department
Populated places established in 1600
1600 establishments in the Spanish Empire
Populated places of the Muisca Confederation
Villages in Colombia